SF quiz

[wellinghall]

1. Who worked for the EBC?
2. Who can stand on Zanzibar?
3. Where is Montival?
4. Who lost her heart to a starship trooper?
5. Who always do things in threes?
6. Who worked at the Nuclear Utilisation Technology Centre?
7. Who speculated on what would have happened if Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg?
8. Which bishop write about going to the moon?
9. What is Wells's Law?
10. What are Clarke's (three) Laws?
11. What are the terms of the Clarke - Asimov treaty?

Comments

7 is Winston.

[wemyss.livejournal.com]

But that's my beloved AH, surely, not SF?

The only one of ACC's Laws I can remember in 10 is the bit abt any sufficiently advanced technology's being indistinguishable from magic. Wh must have them sweating at Cern, I shd think.

Re: 7 is Winston.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed on #7; and yes as far as it goes on #10.

[skordh.livejournal.com]

1 - "surely you mean BBC?" It was Mike & Phyllis Watson from The Kraken Wakes. A good start, shame I was floored by the other 10!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Well done!

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Didn't Sarah brightman sing a song about 4?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed!

[tree_and_leaf]

2. The population of the world in the near future (which probably means round about now...)

8. Francis Godwin. Llandaff, was it?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

2 yes. 8 right name, wrong diocese.

[tree_and_leaf]

Having just googled it, Wiki informs me that he was bishop of Llandaff before he went to Hereford, so we're both right...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Was he now? I didn't know that! I shall adjust your score accordingly.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Is 6 Dave Langford, or at least something to do with 'The Leaky Establishment'?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed; some of the characters in Dave Langford's The Leaky Establishment work there.